Tasmania. He also exp lored the North Island of New Zealand where in 1772 he met his death at the hands of the Maori , with whom he had first established a frie ndly relationship, but who he unwittingly offended by vio lating a number of tabus. The author, an Australian who has written extensively on the French and Dutch ex plorers of Australasia, extensively researched hi s subject in France (i nclud ing the largely untapped archives of the ports of Saint-Malo, Nantes, Brest, La Roche lle and Lorient), Great Britain, South Africa and New Zealand . He reveals an accompli shed mariner who can rightfu 11 y take his place among that period's better known French explorers, such as La Perouse, d 'Entrecastreux and de Surv ille. This lucidl y written vo lume will be of particular interestto students of the mari time expl oration of Australi a and New Zealand, but it will also appeal to those who wish to fi ll a significant gap in the ir know ledge of French maritime hi story and fo r the light it sheds on the intense 18th-century Anglo-French naval rivalry in the lengthy quest for political and imperi al supremacy. FREEMAN M. TOVELL Victoria, British Co lumb ia We, the Navigator s: T he Ancient Art ofLa ndfinding in the Pacific, 2nd ed ition, by Dr. David Lewis (Uni vers ity of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI, 1994, 442pp, illus, appen, notes, gloss, biblio, index; $24.95pb) Orthodox Western nav igators have long been interested in the extraordinary ability of Micronesians , Polynesians and Melanesians to find the ir way across the very considerable di stances of the Pacifi c Ocean to reach mere specks of land . Un til recently , the techniques of the Island Nav igators had not been examined systematicall y and the consistency of their success tended to be discounted . Dr. Lew is's perception of those Nav igators led him to the beli ef that if chance played a part, it was small and that methodical research into their techniques would not only be instructive but a lso prove the point. Dr. Lewis is a silver meda lli st of the Royal Institute of Navigation, a considerable navigator with a life long interest in the Pacific. His first problem was to find islanders trained as Nav igators. He did so but onl y just in time, for techno logy has overtaken the craft. The last SEA HISTORY 71, AUTUMN 1994
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